Ringo Starr and his friends used to frequent the Playboy Club, but their long nights at the club came to an end in 1974. Starr and Keith Moon had thrown a party there that caused damage. The club ultimately rescinded their memberships for their behavior.
Ringo Starr | John Pratt/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Ringo Starr and his friends made a film about their nights out at places like the Playboy Club
In 1974, Starr and his friend Harry Nilsson decided to make a documentary called Harry and Ringo’s Night Out about their nights in Los Angeles clubs. The two friends spent a good deal of time out with musicians like Moon and John Lennon, and they wanted to capture it on film.
Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, and Keith Moon | Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Getty Images
Starr turned to Pride Records president Michael Viner to co-finance the film, which they budgeted at $1.5 million.
Ringo Starr | John Pratt/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Ringo Starr and his friends made a film about their nights out at places like the Playboy Club
In 1974, Starr and his friend Harry Nilsson decided to make a documentary called Harry and Ringo’s Night Out about their nights in Los Angeles clubs. The two friends spent a good deal of time out with musicians like Moon and John Lennon, and they wanted to capture it on film.
Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, and Keith Moon | Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Getty Images
Starr turned to Pride Records president Michael Viner to co-finance the film, which they budgeted at $1.5 million.
- 3/31/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
One night during my college years, I was pulling an all-nighter studying for finals when I caught an old movie on TV; a flick called Willa that concerned a divorced mother who becomes a truck driver.
I saw a lot of myself in Willa, the shy, smiling blonde with the heart and will of a lion. And seeing this movie got me to thinking, “What can I do?”
Deborah Raffin, the actress who played Willa, passed away Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 after a battle with leukemia. In her all too brief existence this woman accrued a vast list of accomplishments that reflected her boundless talents.
As an actress her regal demeanor and angelic beauty served her well in glittery romances like 40 Carats and Jacqueline Susann’s Once is Not Enough. Yet she also played heroines whose strength, intellect and resourcefulness were of far more importance than her grace and fashion sense.
I saw a lot of myself in Willa, the shy, smiling blonde with the heart and will of a lion. And seeing this movie got me to thinking, “What can I do?”
Deborah Raffin, the actress who played Willa, passed away Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 after a battle with leukemia. In her all too brief existence this woman accrued a vast list of accomplishments that reflected her boundless talents.
As an actress her regal demeanor and angelic beauty served her well in glittery romances like 40 Carats and Jacqueline Susann’s Once is Not Enough. Yet she also played heroines whose strength, intellect and resourcefulness were of far more importance than her grace and fashion sense.
- 11/28/2012
- by MeganHussey
- Planet Fury
Deborah Raffin, who had brief but successful careers both as an actress - 7th Heaven, among other shows - and a book publisher, died of leukemia last Wednesday, a family member told the Los Angeles Times. Raffin was 59 and reportedly had battled the disease for about a year. Starting out, the blonde Californian was often compared to the young Grace Kelly, People noted in a 1979 profile. Her mother, Trudy Marshall, had been a bit player for 20th Century Fox in the '40s, and her father was a wealthy meat broker. When Raffin was a sophomore at Valley College in Van Nuys,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Actress Deborah Raffin, whose film and television career spanned four decades, passed away on Nov. 21 after a battle with leukemia, her brother confirms to the La Times. She died at age 59 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Raffin starred in the 1988 miniseries "Noble House" opposite Pierce Brosnan and appeared in over a dozen TV movies. She was perhaps best known for her role as Aunt Julie on "Seventh Heaven." As Rev. Eric Camden's alcoholic sister, Raffin brought plenty of "very special" episodes -- including one where she got a little too rough with 11-year-old Simon when he tried to hide the key to the liquor cabinet.
More recently, Raffin had appeared on episodes of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." In addition to her acting success, Raffin and her husband Michael Viner turned their small books-on-tape business into a multimillion-dollar venture. Their first bestseller was...
Raffin starred in the 1988 miniseries "Noble House" opposite Pierce Brosnan and appeared in over a dozen TV movies. She was perhaps best known for her role as Aunt Julie on "Seventh Heaven." As Rev. Eric Camden's alcoholic sister, Raffin brought plenty of "very special" episodes -- including one where she got a little too rough with 11-year-old Simon when he tried to hide the key to the liquor cabinet.
More recently, Raffin had appeared on episodes of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." In addition to her acting success, Raffin and her husband Michael Viner turned their small books-on-tape business into a multimillion-dollar venture. Their first bestseller was...
- 11/26/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Los Angeles — Deborah Raffin, an actress who ran a successful audiobook company with the help of her celebrity friends, has died. She was 59.
Raffin died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her brother, William, told the Los Angeles Times ( ). She was diagnosed with the blood cancer about a year ago. http://lat.ms/R0q9NM
Raffin, the daughter of 20th Century Fox contract player Trudy Marshall, had roles in movies such as "Forty Carats" and "Once Is Not Enough." She also starred in television miniseries, most notably playing actress Brooke Hayward in "Haywire" and a businesswoman in "Noble House," based on the James Clavell saga set in Hong Kong.
She and her then-husband, music producer Michael Viner, launched Dove Books-on-Tape in the mid-1980s, which blossomed into a multimillion-dollar business. The company's first best-seller was Stephen Hawking's opus on the cosmos entitled "A Brief History of Time.
Raffin died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her brother, William, told the Los Angeles Times ( ). She was diagnosed with the blood cancer about a year ago. http://lat.ms/R0q9NM
Raffin, the daughter of 20th Century Fox contract player Trudy Marshall, had roles in movies such as "Forty Carats" and "Once Is Not Enough." She also starred in television miniseries, most notably playing actress Brooke Hayward in "Haywire" and a businesswoman in "Noble House," based on the James Clavell saga set in Hong Kong.
She and her then-husband, music producer Michael Viner, launched Dove Books-on-Tape in the mid-1980s, which blossomed into a multimillion-dollar business. The company's first best-seller was Stephen Hawking's opus on the cosmos entitled "A Brief History of Time.
- 11/23/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Actress Deborah Raffin, who became the quintessential California blonde TV movie/mini-series ingenue and heroine during the three decades when the genre thrived in the 1970s-1980s-1990s, died on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times quoted her brother as saying she’d had leukemia for the past year and passed away at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 59. Though she starred in several features, she was best known for her TV work and most recently took recurring roles on The Secret Life Of The American Teenager (2008-2010) and 7th Heaven (1996-2005). Also, later in life, she started what eventually became the multimilliondollar Dove audio books with her then husband, showbiz entrepreneur Michael Viner. (They sold the company in 1997.) Los Angeles-born Raffin was the daughter of 20th Century Fox contract player Trudy Marshall and became a TV star when she was discovered in an elevator by an agent. With...
- 11/23/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief
- Deadline Hollywood
Actress Deborah Raffin, who became the quintessential California blonde TV movie/mini-series ingenue and heroine during the three decades when the genre thrived in the 1970s-1980s-1990s, died on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times quoted her brother as saying she’d had leukemia for the past year and passed away at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 59. Though she starred in several features, she was best known for her TV work and most recently took recurring roles on The Secret Life Of The American Teenager (2008-2010) and 7th Heaven (1996-2005). Also, later in life, she started what eventually became the multimilliondollar Dove audio books with her then husband, showbiz entrepreneur Michael Viner. (They sold the company in 1997.) Los Angeles-born Raffin was the daughter of 20th Century Fox contract player Trudy Marshall and became a TV star when she was discovered in an elevator by an agent. With...
- 11/23/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief
- Deadline TV
Deborah Raffin, an actress and entrepreneur who launched audiobook powerhouse Dove Books-on-Tape with her husband, music producer Michael Viner, has died. She was 59. Raffin died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, her brother William told the Los Angeles Times. She was diagnosed with the blood cancer about a year ago, he said. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2012 The blond Los Angeles native, who as a college student was spotted by a talent scout while on an elevator, stared her career by appearing in such films as 40 Carats (1973)
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- 11/22/2012
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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